It’s a medium. There’s all sorts of content. There’s plenty I don’t watch because it’s weird or indeed sexualized, just like regular tv. What’s popular and available in the west on Netflix will be similar to what’s already here. I tend to seek out different stuff that’s subtitled.

I think some authors research history when they are creating their fiction and discover the truth.

Shows such as Code Geass (a British elite ruling the world and interested in occultism vs the people who wish to set up their government) and Fullmetal Alchemist (a young man who discovers the corruption of his country through his military service where the government is in search of a red stone created through the mass sacrifice of human lives where wars have been started for its creation). These are really interesting stories.

I have also watched a lot of great stories about friendship and achieving something and not hookup romance. There’s some good youth culture stuff that there’s an absolute vacuum for here. Like shows about being on a baseball team or being in band or joining a unique club. All middle schoolers have is Disney sitcoms. For boys especially anime has shows that inspire the inner warrior.

Like anything else though anime shouldn’t be someone’s whole personality. I think some people are childish or aspire too much to be like the fantastical characters they see and try to emulate them. Fantasy is for entertainment or temporary escapism, not role modeling. And unfortunately there is a vacuum of good role modeling for youth to adulthood and some get lost. I understand how when the real world sucks. I have always been guided by my Christian foundation and avoided what I thought was odd.